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Entry no.
2020-0002
MOLNIYA 2-17
MOLNIYA 2-17 (NORAD 9829) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 January 2020, after 42 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
9829
International designator
1977-010A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
11 Feb 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Jan 2020UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
42 years, 10 months15,669 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.4°N to 61.4°SFinal inclination 61.4°
Mass
1,650 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-2
Programme
Molniya-2
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 61.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.4°N and 61.4°S.
Life in orbit
42 years, 10 monthsMOLNIYA 2-17’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1977-010
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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